The iconic film-maker’s first novel immortalises Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who continued fighting World War II for decades after its end. In this extract, Onoda receives his orders to defend Lubang Island – whatever the cost.

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Ottessa Moshfegh is one of the most daring and exciting writers of the 21st century. If you’re new to her work, here’s where to begin.

Are you among the many fans of Yuval Noah Harari’s multi-million-copy bestseller, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind? Here are 11 more books that you’re guaranteed to love reading next.

Before the Oscar nominations, Jane Campion’s bruising film was inspired by an even better novel. Thomas Savage’s masterpiece was lost to literary history – and the story behind it is stranger than fiction.

It is 1665 and the Black Death has arrived in the Derbyshire village of Eyam. In this extract from A Parcel of Patterns, 16-year-old Mall Percival and her neighbours face an impossible decision...